Craigslist data miner....
I have built a craiglist data miner for my personal use. It goes out, downloads and parses all rental information for seattle.
I own a duplex so I use it to answer questions like: How much should i charge? What are others charging? What do their places look like? etc etc...
Im a bit of an entreprenuer. Anyone have any other ideas? I know I can't use this to make money as it is against Craiglist's terms of use policy. In fact, i wrote him and asked him. and he said no.
I own a duplex so I use it to answer questions like: How much should i charge? What are others charging? What do their places look like? etc etc...
Im a bit of an entreprenuer. Anyone have any other ideas? I know I can't use this to make money as it is against Craiglist's terms of use policy. In fact, i wrote him and asked him. and he said no.
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Could you mash it with Google maps to generate average rents for an area, or possible a heat map?
Also, in my experience several years ago, many of the Craigslist rentals were priced on the high side. A large part of my search was on foot looking for unadvertised rental properties in neighborhoods I wanted to live in. The rates tended to be less- in some cases by a few hundred dollars. (which leads me to another topic...)
It would be neat if you could include rental prices from other sources as well.
http://www.housingmaps.com/
In my search, I noticed that the properties I thought were priced about right tended to disappear within 48 hours... the ones that got reposted week and in week out tended to be severely overpriced.